[support] whoops! Changed settings.php and now get redirected to "Database Configuration" page.

[Jason Flatt]

On Saturday 21 July 2007 05:39:28 Neil: esl-lounge.com wrote:
> I'm having one of those dreaded "can't get into my own site" moments!
>
> I altered the cookie lifetime in settings.php from 2000000 to 900, opened
> ftp, uploaded
>
> .....and now I get redirected to this URL every time:
>
> http://www.mysite.com/install.php?profile=default
>
> looking on the drupal.org forum, it seems as though permissions may be my
> problem. At the moment, it is 644.

If it is truly a permissions problem (though I don't recall seeing this 
behavior for that problem), then set the file to read-only for owner and 
group and nothing for other.

> I just made a comparison between my 
> settings.php and the currently settings.php in the 5.1 tar and the only
> difference is the cookie length, so I'm stumped.

Shouldn't the $db_url be different also? Or did you create a database using 
Drupal's default settings?

> anyone had this problem?

No.

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